US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on May 5 for "End-to-end privacy ecosystem" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,748, issued on May 5, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"End-to-end privacy ecosystem" was invented by Marvin Lu (Northbrook, Ill.), Timothy W. Gibson (Northbrook, Ill.), Thomas J. Wilson (Northbrook, Ill.), Aleksandr Likhterman (Northbrook, Ill.) and Raja Sekhar Thiruvathuru (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more privacy vaults. At least one of the one or more privacy vaults is associated with at least one individual user, stores contents associated with the associated at least one individual user, and stores specific identification of a plurality of third-party entities...